Is it fun to be in the snow and ice ?

[verthandi]

I love the change of seasons, winter brings a time of rest from outside yard chores. No more lawns to mow or fence to trim once the snow has covered the ground. Chores take longer and are harder, but there is something to be said about knowing the critters are all safely tucked in the barn and comfortable.

None chicken related picture, but one of my favorite winter scenes taken from my back pasture.

 

[gritsar]

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I do believe you are gloating just a tad!

Snow and even a little ice can be beautiful from the inside on a day off from work. Add driving in it, it's about as much fun as a frontal lobotomy. Add the driving and frozen water pipes and it's a frontal lobotomy while getting your teeth drilled!

Btw, how come you have noseeums in Texas, but we don't in Arkansas? We had em in NC, but when I try to tell my Arky SO about em, he looks at me like I'm crazy!

 

[arlee453]

Not a snow person here...

I love our NC snow - anything more than a dusting comes maybe once every 3-5 years and stays only for a day or two or three. We get a couple snow days, the kids get some time to play, and then life gets back to normal.

Don't like ice much, but it usually doesn't last more than a day or two either. Biggest issue with ice is losing power. Can't have any of THAT until after these eggs hatch that are in the bator! LOL.

You folks up north can keep the snow. I'm happy to stay down here with our mild winters. We do get 4 distinct seasons though. I think it WOULD be strange to live somewhere where it's hard to know when the season changes...

 

[Rosalind]

Depends on...

-If you take the train to work, and it's been done snowing long enough that the tracks are clear.
-If you have a hot woodstove, a big stack of firewood, and a spouse to make you hot coffee/cocoa/cider
-If you have very little driveway to shovel, or maybe a neighbor kid who could use $30 and has his dad's snowblower waiting
-If you have your ice skates sharpened, your sled dusted off, your skis tuned, your snowboard clips tightened
-How much house you have to heat and how well-insulated it is. Smaller house = better.
-If you've got the pantry stocked up that you aren't going to have to go shopping for a good long while.
-If your dog can serve as a draft dog or newspaper-fetcher. I'm trying to train mine to fetch firewood

-If your winter clothes from last year are still fit to wear. One of my co-workers who moved up north from Texas was amazed that she had to buy basically a whole wardrobe and a half of sweaters, jackets, winter coats and boots, etc. My mom cheaps out on buying winter clothing and she is always sick. Gotta have good boots, socks, parka, fleece jackets.
-If you have a heater for the chicken waterers, of course!

Mostly I enjoy it. I grew up in PA, back when it snowed regular every winter, and without the snow it doesn't seem like a real holiday. Now when I visit my brother for Xmas, it's rarely snowy at all, just kind of gray and soggy, depressing. What verthandi said about less chores is true, once you've got the lawnmower stored, the garden mulched, you're done with outdoor chores for the year. I'm not going to have to pull ticks off the dog, spray the trees and shrubs, set bug traps in the garden, etc. till, oh, late March.

 

[TxChiknRanchers]

Quote:
I do believe you are gloating just a tad!

Snow and even a little ice can be beautiful from the inside on a day off from work. Add driving in it, it's about as much fun as a frontal lobotomy. Add the driving and frozen water pipes and it's a frontal lobotomy while getting your teeth drilled!

Btw, how come you have noseeums in Texas, but we don't in Arkansas? We had em in NC, but when I try to tell my Arky SO about em, he looks at me like I'm crazy!

Well maybe a little! But I do envy the folks that see a little snow, especially at Christmas time! I assure you that you can have all of my "noseeums" the only thing we have more of is fireants!

I do miss the ice and snow though, I used to sit up in the pilot house and watch the deckhands do tow work in the blizzards up north. I'd wear my best colorfull Hawaiian shirt with a large glass of tea in my hand and announce that they needed to hurry up cause the boiler was hot and my ice was melting in my glass. And it was amazing, all eight of them would show me they thought I was #1. Its a fond memory, Eight little hooded heads holding up eight little gloved hands, all to let me know how much I meant to them.

Randy

 

[PurpleChicken]

75% of my work is outside. I love the cold. You can dress for the cold,
not for the heat. I'll take 30 over 80 degrees to work in any day.
Ice and snow just make it more interesting. Wind and rain are a hassle.

For those who think the cold gets you sick that isn't true. What get's
you sick are all the whimpy "I hate cold" people who crowd the offices,
jobs, churches, SCHOOLS, etc.. and spread the viruses. Plus your BODY
NEEDS SUNLIGHT to function properly. The only reason I get sick is
because my kid brings home those evil child germs from school and only
sleeping 3 hours or so a night doesn't help either.

It's 30 and sunny out. I'm gonna go work on siding the barn. I've got
Travis Tritt's "It's a Great Day To Be Alive" ringing in my head.

 

[carugoman]

I spent the first 12 years of my life in SE West "By GOD!" Virginia...then 3 yrs near Pittsburgh...I've had my fill of snow,sleet,slush,ice or water in any other form that's not warm as a shower! The best thing my step-dad ever did for me was kick me out on my 15th birthday and I stopped in Homestead,Florida. I've only left this state when I spent 24 yrs in the military...half of which I was stationed in Florida! Now if I want snow...there always HDTV!

 

[Wildsky]

We're getting ice rain right now - first I've ever seen it and its very pretty!
Looks like snow on the ground. (sounds like someone frying bacon!)
I've been out twice already - my dh offered to feed the animals, let the chickens out and scoop horse poop etc.... he did it but I couldn't stay indoors and watch - so I went out anyway - I filled water buckets....

We're supposed to get some snow later... not sure how well the ice and snow will go over, but it will be pretty for sure!!

 

[Wildsky]

Beautiful picture Verthandi!

 

[Henriettahen]

I don't know about america..but here in Canada the snow gets pretty crazy..pretty..but veryyyyy anoying and cold.

I don't know what celcius is in ferinhite. but it gets - 40 C in the winter..